Young Stanley Ketchell

Name: Young Stanley Ketchell
Alias: The Fighting Parson
Hometown: USA
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: Moose Taussig

According to the Spokane Spokesman-Review (Sopkane, WA, USA) newspaper of August 13, 1922, Young Stanley Ketchell had been born in Nez Perce, Idaho. He was an ex-radio operator/sailor for the United States Navy, and had for three years been a theology student before enlisting in the Navy. (Thus, the nickname of "The Fighting Parson"?) An expert at telegraphy, he became the manager of the Phoenix, Arizona, branch of Western Union.

According to that August 13 Spokane newspaper article, he was in Honolulu, Hawaii, with the United States National Guard, and apparently convinced many on the Islands that boxing was an honorable sport.

The Nov. 23, 1922 Lewiston Morning Tribune printed a letter from his manager, Moose Taussig, who was in Hawaii. [1]. Ketchell had fought as a welterweight in Lewiston and nearby towns two years earlier, and for the past year had toured the Orient and Hawaiian Islands. He had been in Hawaii for the past four months, where he was a boxing instructor at army posts and the YMCA, and was heading to Los Angeles and San Francisco for bouts there.